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White gold may be subtle and pink gold may be largely flattering, but when it comes to a classic precious metal, there’s nothing quite like yellow gold.

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White gold may be subtle and pink gold may be largely flattering, but when it comes to a classic precious metal, there’s nothing quite like yellow gold.

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In what’s become a highly anticipated annual tradition at Harry Winston, in which it unveils a unique and extraordinary timepiece that’s almost always ridiculously extravagant, magnificently crafted and, quite simply, a sight to behold, the New York house presents the Ultimate Quadri Tourbillon.

For this piece, its designers envision the grand, neoclassical arched entrance of the brand’s Fifth Avenue home and creates a structure from which hangs a white gold pocket watch adapted from Harry Winston’s Histoire de Tourbillon 10, featuring four independent tourbillons.

The watch provides quite the mesmerising show in which the tourbillons rotate counter-clockwise over 36 seconds, while the hours and minutes advance in a traditional fashion. The aesthetics of the watch have been enhanced, with the tourbillons now fitted with blue titanium bridges, and the movement has an openwork structure that reveals its complex architecture.

Providing texture and depth, the bridges and plates are treated with a microbead-blasted finishing that contrasts with others that are satin brushed. Arabic numerals at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock are also presented in a lighter shade of blue and placed in raised platforms, while the famous Harry Winston emerald-cut diamond is given pride of place at 12 o’clock.

The Ultimate Quadri Tourbillon hangs from a free-standing structure made in white gold that echoes the entryway to the house’s Fifth Avenue salon and features a marquetry of blue aventurine and 18 baguette-cut diamonds in the keystone.

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Famed designer Ralph Lauren has one of the most impressive car collections in the world, with a collection of more than 70 cars with an estimated worth of at least $300 million. As the mogul’s passion and fascination with cars have a storied history, his collection of antique cars has inspired many car-related products, with […]

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Famed designer Ralph Lauren has one of the most impressive car collections in the world, with a collection of more than 70 cars with an estimated worth of at least $300 million. As the mogul’s passion and fascination with cars have a storied history, his collection of antique cars has inspired many car-related products, with […]

The post Ralph Lauren’s Ultra-Rare Bugatti Inspired His New Chronograph appeared first on Upscale Living Magazine.

Famed designer Ralph Lauren has one of the most impressive car collections in the world, with a collection of more than 70 cars with an estimated worth of at least $300 million. As the mogul’s passion and fascination with cars have a storied history, his collection of antique cars has inspired many car-related products, with […]

The post Ralph Lauren’s Ultra-Rare Bugatti Inspired His New Chronograph appeared first on Upscale Living Magazine.

Famed designer Ralph Lauren has one of the most impressive car collections in the world, with a collection of more than 70 cars with an estimated worth of at least $300 million. As the mogul’s passion and fascination with cars have a storied history, his collection of antique cars has inspired many car-related products, with […]

The post Ralph Lauren’s Ultra-Rare Bugatti Inspired His New Chronograph appeared first on Upscale Living Magazine.

Famed designer Ralph Lauren has one of the most impressive car collections in the world, with a collection of more than 70 cars with an estimated worth of at least $300 million. As the mogul’s passion and fascination with cars have a storied history, his collection of antique cars has inspired many car-related products, with […]

The post Ralph Lauren’s Ultra-Rare Bugatti Inspired His New Chronograph appeared first on Upscale Living Magazine.

Famed designer Ralph Lauren has one of the most impressive car collections in the world, with a collection of more than 70 cars with an estimated worth of at least $300 million. As the mogul’s passion and fascination with cars have a storied history, his collection of antique cars has inspired many car-related products, with […]

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Here are some of this year's best, newest and hottest men's and ladies' watches.

From high complications and iterations of beloved classics to completely new collections, we assure you they were well worth waiting for.

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Here are some of this year's best, newest and hottest men's and ladies' watches.

From high complications and iterations of beloved classics to completely new collections, we assure you they were well worth waiting for.

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We all wish for that Eureka moment. Having that one brilliant idea that will scoop us out of the pool of mundanity we’ve found ourselves in with our chosen (or not) career, which in all likelihood, has become far less interesting than it used to be.

The thing with such lightbulb moments is that they dawn on you in the unlikeliest places and moments, and are often motivated by simple practicalities. For Adam Brown, founder of British resortwear and lifestyle brand Orlebar Brown, that moment came while he was on holiday in Rajasthan, and was slightly irked about having to change for lunch while wearing swim shorts. “That’s when I got the idea of a tailored swim short – that which I can swim in but also can wear to a restaurant and still look smart,” Brown says.

[caption id="attachment_212501" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Models wear clothing from the Orlebar Brown / IWC resort capsule collection and IWC watches.[/caption]

And Orlebar Brown swim shorts are surely not your run-of-the-mill variety. They’re based on the traditional pattern of a pair of men’s trousers, and designed to be a “transitional item” you can wear in or by the pool, as well as in establishments that require a dress code. As the brand’s collections evolved, so did the variety of its products that eventually extended beyond holiday wear. And now, in light of Brown’s collaboration with IWC, he’s just added watch design to his résumé.

“It started with an email, and went on to a ‘get to know you’ phase with Chris Granger, CEO of IWC, and its creative director Christian Knoop; it snowballed from there. The creative process was really fun. I think the fun factor is an important part of any collaboration, and that both brands share the same values,” Brown says. Numerous meetings, phone calls, emails and hours-long brainstorming sessions later, the Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph Edition “Orlebar Brown” was born, and alongside it a nine-piece special Orlebar Brown capsule resort collection.

[caption id="attachment_212498" align="aligncenter" width="791"] Adam Brown is the founder of Orlebar Brown.[/caption]

“It was a true collaboration, with both involved in each other’s products – from the colour and design of the case down to the weight of the strap. It was very important to me that we both contributed to the design of the watch and the capsule collection. Obviously, the Portugieser is a watch that’s been around for a long time and IWC was very clear about how it wanted to talk about the watch this year. It was something that absolutely fits with what Orlebar Brown is about,” Brown says.

And the Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph Edition “Orlebar Brown” indeed has that resort touch to it. Matching its stainless-steel case is a marine-blue dial and a co-branded side-fastener buckle with white and red colour accents, shades often used in Orlebar Brown’s product range. The chronograph is equipped with an in-house calibre, and features a flyback function, a sub dial at 12 o’clock and a 68-hour power reserve. It’s finished off with a blue rubber strap with textile inlay and is, naturally, water-resistant up to 6 bar, making it ideally suited for an action-packed adventure on the deck of a yacht, or a casual lounge at the beach or pool.

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As for the capsule collection, it’s not like any that Brown has done before. “It’s high resort. The watch is called the Yacht Club, so it gave us a clear direction as to what the product would look like. That elegance, refinement, the approach to tailoring, the attention to detail. For instance, using towelling fabric in a blazer, the trim details, weight of the jerseys and use of the finest linen, or having gold fasteners on the trousers and other touches like that. It’s different because of the lifestyle it’s epitomising. Although we’ve done ready-to-wear for quite a while, it just needed a bit of a nudge and we made it a little more refined and a bit more grown up and just had that IWC feel about it.

“Just like the Portugieser Yacht Club, our collection combines timeless elegance and a love of adventure. We also drew inspiration from Portugieser family, a model that’s traditionally associated with the world of water, sailing and navigation.”

The collection includes a white towelling blazer with blue piping and a cotton/silk knitted polo. A highlight is a photographic swim short with signature side fasteners, depicting a Solaris 55 sailing yacht in front of Porto Rotondo in Sardinia.

[caption id="attachment_212499" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Bulldog swim shorts with the Solaris 55 sailing yacht.[/caption]

“When you do collaborations, the idea is to take your brand to a place where it doesn’t traditionally exist. So whether it’s the Bond collaboration, an artist or a graphic designer, it’s just interesting to see how something that you know so well and something that’s fundamentally Orlebar Brown can evolve into something that’s slightly different and interesting for the customer.”

In his design process Brown always considers where items will be worn, what the wearers will be doing in them, and the overall lifestyle they convey. “With IWC, there was a true resort style and elegance to it. Maybe a sporting touch, too – a bit more beach-volleyball feel, or playing with the kids in the water. Or there’s the coast/Atlantic kind of holiday, like being on a big cliff, so it’s very different from being in a resort or on a beach, so instead we do wind-blown effects, faded colours and a fabric that’s slightly different.

[caption id="attachment_212500" align="alignnone" width="1024"] A model wears an Orlebar Brown Headley knitted grey sweatshirt with the Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph Edition "Orlebar Brown" watch.[/caption]

“My approach to design really is that the item needs to have a personality; it has to have a real relationship with the user, taking into consideration how you think the customer would want to wear it. It’s not simply producing clothes. This whole idea of versatility is important, too. You need to look at things from different angles and perspectives, rather than making it about a specific place or activity. All those things come together to form a design philosophy,” Brown says.

And surely wearing a smart linen button-down shirt paired with jacquard swim shorts – and, of course, with this handsome Portugieser strapped on your wrist – you could just as easily be frolicking on the beaches of Saint-Tropez as waiting to get seated at one of New York’s swankiest establishments, yet feeling immaculately dressed for the occasion in both situations.

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